“…Those kernel functions calculated from the shear material functions I/+ (?, t), 1/-(~, t), ~ui ~ (~, t) and q/i-(~, t) are calculated specifically from the data obtained by Attané [5,6] for a 0.25 g/tal monodisperse polystyrene solution ofmolecular weight 1.6 • 10 6. Since no data of q} (8, t) were found for polystyrene solutions, kernel functions based on the function r/}(e, t) were calculated for a different material. The data obtained by Meissner [7] in both shear stress and uniaxial extensional stress start-up experiments on low density polyethylene melts, formely called melt I; were used for this purpose.…”